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Akshay Gaikwad

Software Engineer

Pune, Maharashtra, India7 yrs 4 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led high-impact projects with rapid delivery.
  • Expert in full-stack development and architectural innovation.
  • Recognized for technical mentorship and team leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Full-Stack Developer with expertise in SaaS and Fintech industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Full-stack DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipInfrastructure ModernizationInfrastructure Development

Other Skills

GolangPythonPostgreSQLFlaskData EngineeringProject ManagementReact.jsDjangoCI/CDNode.jsEvent-Driven SystemsMachine LearningReact/ReduxAWSCelery

About

As a Senior Software Engineer at Netlink Software Group America Inc, my role centers around pioneering full-stack solutions that bolster the technological advancements of our products. With a solid foundation from my Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering, I excel in leveraging my proficiency in Golang, Python, and leading frameworks to deliver robust software architectures and user-centric platforms. Previously at AgroStar, my contributions were pivotal in refining product development processes, emphasizing high-quality code, and deploying scalable solutions. My commitment to continuous learning and innovation ensures I remain at the forefront of full-stack development, aligning with the organization’s vision of technological leadership.

Experience

7 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 10 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 9 mos
Current Experience

Netlink software group america inc

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Remote

  • Technical Leadership & Team Management
  • Acting Tech Lead: Managed a cross-functional team of 4-6 engineers, overseeing end-to-end delivery of a high-traffic analytics dashboard for global enterprise clients.
  • Strategic Oversight: Drove the technical roadmap, including architecture decisions, solution proposals, client stakeholder management, and production deployment orchestration.
  • Mentorship & Quality: Institutionalized Pair Programming rotations and knowledge-sharing (KT) sessions; pioneered the adoption of automated frontend testing, achieving 60% code coverage and significantly reducing permission-related production incidents.
  • Managed the full SDLC: from architecture proposals and blocker mitigation to pair programming rotations and production deployments.
  • Architectural Innovation & Data Engineering
  • Scalable Historical Data Engine: Architected a snapshot-based retrieval system to support 200+ metrics across 10+ pages.
  • Real-Time Configuration Module: Designed and implemented a full-stack configuration engine from scratch (Python/Flask, PostgreSQL), allowing business users to edit previously read-only ETL metrics directly from the UI.
  • Concurrency & Conflict Management: Engineered a Pessimistic Locking mechanism to handle multi-user edit conflicts.
GolangPythonPostgreSQLFlaskData EngineeringFull-Stack Development+1

Agrostar

SDE 2

Jun 2022Apr 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Full-Stack Ecosystem Ownership: Exercised end-to-end technical ownership over a mission-critical suite including CrmService, CartService, NotificationService, TicketService, Crm-UI, and Offer-UI.
  • B2B Logic & Event-Driven Systems: Designed and implemented an asynchronous Partner Club Assignment engine (5-tier logic) based on purchase and payment behavior.
  • Critical Infrastructure Stability: Identified and resolved a legacy database "hang-up" issue affecting the Django-based support portal.
  • Latency Reduction: Optimized UI performance during the "Credit Cash" rollout by building efficient Aggregator Layers for Catalog and Cart service endpoints, resolving significant lag caused by dual-cart management.
  • CI/CD Transformation: Overhauled the deployment pipeline for Crm-UI and Offer-Management-UI by implementing CI/CD, reducing deployment cycles from 20 minutes (manual build/restart) to under 1 minute.
  • Infrastructure Modernization: Led the migration of frontend build systems to Node.js v16 and improved system observability by performing comprehensive error-log cleanups across core backend services.
  • Multi-Channel Communication Strategy: Scaled the notification infrastructure by integrating third-party WhatsApp and SMS gateways, enabling a strategic architectural split between B2C and B2B communication channels.
  • High-Velocity Execution: Demonstrated elite delivery speed by leading the "Surkhiyan" project from prototype to production in 5 days and delivering "Weather Updates" within 48 hours.
  • Recognized Excellence: Consistently rated as a "7-Star Performer" and "Impact Creator," receiving 3 consecutive quarterly performance awards for high-impact contributions and technical mentorship.
  • Stakeholder Alignment: Actively drove architecture discussions and code reviews, ensuring high standards for code quality and 100% KPI achievement for project velocity and risk mitigation.
PythonReact.jsDjangoCI/CDNode.jsFull-Stack Development+1

Cloudfountain inc.

Full-stack Developer

Oct 2021May 2022 · 7 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Product Architecture & Decision Engines
  • Rule-Based Recommendation Engine: Architected a dynamic, state-driven UI engine using Node.js and React/Redux that managed complex insurance recommendation workflows.
  • Anonymous-to-Authenticated Data Mapping: Designed a session-merging strategy that seamlessly mapped "Guest" session data and recommendation history to user profiles upon post-recommendation login, ensuring zero data loss during the conversion funnel.
  • Intelligent Provider Filtering: Integrated a machine learning feedback loop that filtered insurance providers based on historical rejection patterns for specific user archetypes. This optimization increased successful policy issuance by 20%.
  • State Persistence & Session Management: Implemented a robust server-side and client-side (Redux) state management strategy to handle high-frequency session updates and complex insurance plan comparisons across disparate providers.
  • Operational Impact & Growth
  • User Behavior Analytics: Strategized and implemented an end-to-end user activity tracking system to identify high-friction drop-off points in the funnel, leading to data-driven UI/UX refinements.
  • Referral System Design: Engineered a viral growth loop by building a referral functionality from scratch, enabling tracked user invitations and reward attribution within the recommendation platform.
  • Hybrid Fulfillment Logic: Developed a "manual fallback" workflow where low-confidence ML recommendations automatically triggered a "Buddy Assignment" system, ensuring 100% lead coverage by connecting high-risk users with insurance agents for manual follow-up.
Node.jsReact.jsMachine LearningFull-Stack Development

Routerabbit inc

Developer

Jul 2018Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Distributed Systems & Scalability
  • Architectural Transformation: Re-engineered a monolithic, cron-based data ingestion pipeline into a distributed microservices architecture (Node.js, Python, Celery), reducing processing time by 90% (from 30 mins for 100 posts to ~5 mins for 400+ posts).
  • High-Concurrency Task Orchestration: Designed a multi-stage processing pipeline using Celery and RabbitMQ, implemented a "RootService" to chunk massive social media datasets into parallel workloads.
  • Auto-Scaling Infrastructure: Developed a dynamic scaling mechanism for "AiService" workers using AWS EC2 custom images to spin up/down compute resources on-demand based on real-time Celery task queue depth, optimizing throughput.
  • Granular State Management: Engineered a robust tracking system to monitor progress at the individual post, fetch, and profile levels, ensuring data consistency and enabling real-time status updates for the UI.
  • Data Engineering & Product Impact
  • ML-Driven Social Intelligence: Built the core logic for an analytics platform that ingested Facebook/Instagram Graph API data to provide predictive "when and what to post" reports based on historical engagement patterns.
  • Full-Stack Ownership: Acted as the sole Python Developer for core services while contributing significantly to the Node.js API and React/AngularJS frontend to bridge the gap between heavy background processing and data visualization.
  • System Optimization: Improved platform reliability by replacing manual database dumps with event-driven task queues, facilitating a seamless flow of data from ingestion to final chart rendering.
  • MVC Development: Led the technical execution of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), collaborating directly with stakeholders to translate business requirements into a scalable technical specification.
Node.jsPythonAWSCeleryInfrastructure Development

Education

International institute of information technology

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) — Computer Engineering

Jan 2014Jan 2018

Modern College, Pune

HSC — Science

Jan 2012Jan 2014

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